Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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'All my life,' I said, 'knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.'
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The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.
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Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
